500th and a date for Core?
A Growing Community of African Developers and Designers
It all started as an open call for developers to build parser’s for an app that let’s you understand how you spend money, but now it is gradually taking over Stack Overflow’s Nigerian developer audience.
With over 100k messages being sent, and 70% of these messages are in DMs, we wonder whether we shouldn’t start a relationship channel.
Got a bug that won’t budge? #dev has got you. Looking for some quick design reviews, everyone be checking in #ui_ux, looking to exhibit some open sourcery, stop over at #open-source-ideas, or just looking to meet some awesome devs and designers, you’re always welcome in #welcome-meet-nd-greet.
Now something interesting happened in the channel yesterday, which lead to promising a package for the person who gets to invite the 500th member.
So this is how we will do it. You’ll go here and sign up to the Devcenter Square team. On joining just say Core sent you.
Core gats take bae for a movie with that ticket while we are eating those cupcakes, this Friday. You can have the shirt and whatever Octocat is giving, Core already has too many of those.
Don’t forget to check out the other discussions on Square.
Developer News From Nigeria
Your Code Makes Me Fat
Adim Ofunne is at it again, and this time he is blaming your code for all the extra weight he has gained this year.
The Star Rush
No, this is not a new Star Wars episode. Shalvah is just saying, if a picture is worth a thousand words, a code review is worth a thousand stars. And so let us not focus on the just the stars.
Slackword — A Dictionary in Slack
In just one weekend, Lara created this beautiful Slack add-on. Now Core can check for those big words right in Slack.
UNNPortal — An API to help with UNN student authentications
Shalvah is on fire, and he doesn’t seem to want to cool down. He created this API to help anyone creating a solution or a system for students in the University of Nigeria Nsukka, to easily get and authenticate users who can sign in using their UNN portal details.
The UI/UX Section
5 Visually Appealing Mobile Apps in Nigeria
After a short hiatus, Layrz is back with a beautiful list and review of apps made in Nigeria that look good and work well.
Product Design 101 for Developers, Startups & Designers
A little 1 on 1 on how developers, designers and startups should design products.
UX Tools and Resources
Taylor, not Taylor Swift, went out and over with this curated list of UX books, tools and other resources.
Events
Jelly at CapitalSquare
Jelly is CapitalSquare’s free work day as well as a meetup is happening this Friday. You can use the co-working space for free and interact with like minded people.
Localhost — Building to scale
Terragon is holding a get together for veteran engineers in Nigeria, who can build solutions for a thousand users without breaking a sweat.
If you’re one of those guys, register here
forLoop 2016 End of Year Party
forLoop is throwing a party this Saturday, be sure not to miss out.
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Core.
